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Biak

• ISO 639-3: bhw [1]
• Biak is an Austronesian language spoken by about 30,000-70,000 people in Biak and other small islands near Western New Guinea. [2]
• Speakers of Biak skew older, and most are also fluent in Malay. [3]
• Speakers of Biak are predominantly Christian. [4]
• Biak seems to be an agglutinative language like Malay or Indonesian. [5] describes how verbs are modified with either prefixes or infixes, depending on the beginning of the verb.
• Writing: Latin script. [6]

Resources

• Dictionary and several texts with English translations: [7]
• Biak prayers and songs: [8]
• PhD dissertation written on Biak: [9]